“#Promoting Peace” Imam Shamshad of Baitul Jammay mosque met other religious leaders on March 11th, at First Congregational Church of Glen Ellyn 535 Forest Ave. After a brief introduction, the […]
By AFP | Ottawa Thursday, 12 March 2015 A group of Canadian imams and religious scholars issued a religious edict against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group Wednesday, denouncing its threats against and recruitment in Canada. In a fatwa posted online, also endorsed by a U.S. imam […]
Source: The Huffington Post By Craig Considine Islamophobes have attacked me because I’ve written positively about Muhammad, the Prophet of Islam. Because I am a Catholic, they consider me to be […]
Source: New York Times By THE EDITORIAL BOARD MARCH 11, 2015 After helping to ignite a firestorm over a possible nuclear agreement with Iran, Senator John McCain, a former Republican presidential […]
Source: BBC Two police officers have been shot in Ferguson, a Missouri town hit by riots over the killing of an unarmed black teenager last year. One officer was shot […]
Source: NY Times: FERGUSON, Mo. — Two St. Louis County police officers were shot early Thursday outside the Ferguson police station, the county police said. The officers’ conditions were not known. The shootings followed protests by several dozen demonstrators, which included occasional clashes with the police and a few arrests. […]
Published Wednesday, March 11, 2015 11:09AM EDT Last Updated Wednesday, March 11, 2015 12:18PM EDT A Pakistani man has been arrested in connection with a suspected terror plot against the United States consulate in Toronto, CTV News has learned. The Canada Border Services Agency says Jhanzab Malik was arrested on […]
Report by Arman Butt Imam Shamshad Nasir of the Ahmadiyya Movement in Islam recently visited the Ghana National Council of Chicago which is composed of representatives of several Chicagoland Ghanaian […]
, CP | By Joan Bryden, The Canadian Press OTTAWA – Stephen Harper doubled down Tuesday on his aversion to face-covering veils worn by some Muslim women, calling them the product of a culture that is “anti-women.” The prime minister ratcheted up the rhetoric against the niqab even as Liberal […]
, CP | By Joan Bryden, The Canadian Press OTTAWA – Stephen Harper doubled down Tuesday on his aversion to face-covering veils worn by some Muslim women, calling them the product of a culture that is “anti-women.” The prime minister ratcheted up the rhetoric against the niqab even as Liberal […]
Huff Post: by Antonia Blumberg — March marks Women’s History Month, a time to celebrate and critically assess the ways in which women’s rights have and have not progressed around the world. In the realm of religion, there is still much work to be done, as many faith traditions continue to bar […]
NY Times: Somewhere between stepping off the school bus and climbing into the go-kart, Sandra Ibrahim, 14, took off her pink hijab. She was on a trip to an indoor amusement park in New Rochelle, N.Y., with her Islamic weekend school, surrounded by other Muslim children, parents and teachers. She […]
Public Safety minister cites Qur’an verse as example of hate speech By Brian Daly, QMI Agency, Tuesday, March 10, 2015 12:42:47 EDT PM Public Safety Minister Steven Blaney paraphrased a controversial verse from the Qur’an on Tuesday as an example of hate speech that “goes against Canadian values.” Blaney made […]
Places I have been I have been in many places, but I’ve never been in Cahoots. Apparently, you can’t go alone, you have to be in Cahoots with someone. I’ve also never been in Cognito , I hear no one recognizes you there. I have, however, been in Sane. […]
Huff Post: What does it mean for a religion to be woven into American history? The presence of Muslims in the early United States is well known to scholars — historians have put their population in the tens of thousands — yet when President Obama noted last month that “Islam […]
Huff Post: What does it mean for a religion to be woven into American history? The presence of Muslims in the early United States is well known to scholars — historians have put their population in the tens of thousands — yet when President Obama noted last month that “Islam […]
Salt Lake Tribune | By Peggy Fletcher Stack Posted: 03/09/2015 SALT LAKE CITY — Mormonism begins with a simple story of heavenly manifestations. A 19th-century farm boy in upstate New […]
Kindly click on the images to zoom them, Jazakallah. Imam Shamshad A. Nasir Shamshad A. Nasir is imam & missionary-in-charge of the Baitul ul Jaam’e Mosque, Glen Ellyn Cell Phone: 909-636-8332 | Email: Shamshadanasir@gmail.com
Huff Post: The United States has long been a majority-Christian country, but it is by no means religiously static. In 2007, Pew Research found the religiously unaffiliated to be the second-largest religious group in the country, at 16 percent of the population. As of 2014, the religiously unaffiliated now make […]
Dr. Phillip C. McGraw’s show draws on his 25 years of experience in psychology, sociology and observation. Beginning his TV career as the resident expert on human behavior on Oprah […]